Creation and the Bible

The following papers relate to Creation and the Word of God. They are particularly aimed at Evangelical Christians.

Can Christians believe Genesis ?
We can sympathise with anyone who does not believe that Genesis 1 records a historical creation. It is hard to believe something, which is generally derided by the scientific establishment, by teachers, the intelligentsia and the media. The prevailing orthodoxy is
Evolutionary: young-earth creationism is a form of flat-earthism. However, though many evangelicals cannot believe that Genesis is historical, they nevertheless believe that the Bible is true. So how do they manage to believe both the Bible and the theory of evolution? READ FULL ARTICLE
 

Does Creation Out-of-Nothing tally with Evangelical Evolutionism?
‘Catherine knew not how to reconcile two such very different accounts of the same thing’ - Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey
Young-earth creationists and evangelical evolutionists1 have such different interpretations of Genesis 1 that Jane Austen’s heroine might have had difficulty in recognizing that they were both about the same passage of Scripture. READ FULL ARTICLE

Are Genesis 1-2 literally contradictory, therefore allegorical ?
The problem confronting evangelicals, who believe in evolution, is that Genesis says the opposite of what they would like it to say. If only Genesis 1:1 said In the beginning God created a bit of matter and allowed it to evolve, how much simpler matters would be! But Genesis says that God made the world deliberately, with His bare hands (so to speak, cf. Gen.2:7) and miraculously in six 24-hour days. So how can evangelical evolutionists make it say something else? READ FULL ARTICLE